All About Tennis Champion Iga Swiatek's Parents, Dorota and Tomasz Swiatek

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• Iga Swiatek's father, Tomasz Swiatek, is a former Olympic rower and her mother, Dorota Swiatek, is an orthodonist
• The tennis pro credited her older sister, Agata Swiatek, for getting her into tennis
• Tomasz served as the head of Iga's coaching team until 2024

Athletic talent runs in Iga Swiatek's family.

Her father, Tomasz Swiatek, represented Poland in rowing at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, and her sister, Agata Swiatek, competed as a junior tennis player until 2013. According to the tennis star’s Olympic bio, Tomasz guided Iga to a career in sports — and it paid off.

By 2020, she had become the first Polish player to win a Grand Slam singles title at the French Open.

Her father served as the head of her coaching team until 2024 and has remained a constant presence at her matches. But that doesn’t mean tennis dominates their lives.

In August 2024, while speaking to Polish outlet WP SportoweFakty, Tomasz said that he and his daughter don't often talk about tennis together. Iga’s mother, Dorota Swiatek, an orthodontist, told Super Express in October 2020 that while she was proud of her daughter’s success, what matters most to her is that Iga is doing what she loves.

So, who are Iga Swiatek's parents? Here’s everything to know about Dorota and Tomasz Swiatek. 

They have two daughters

Dorota and Tomasz share two daughters — Agata and Iga — who they raised in Warsaw, Poland, per Iga’s WTA Tennis bio. The tennis pro told TIME in April 2023 that she started playing tennis when she was around 6 or 7.

“I always had a lot of energy,” she told the outlet. “So I needed something to kind of waste it on. But it wasn’t a waste.”

Tomasz was an Olympic rower 

Iga’s father reached his own level of athletic success in his heyday. He’s a rower who competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Nearly 40 years later, the tennis pro followed in her father’s footsteps and made her Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Iga reached the second round.

Dorota is an orthodontist 

Unlike her husband and daughter, Dorota did not pursue a career in athletics. According to her professional bio, she’s worked as an orthodontics specialist since 1991 and specializes in treating orthodontic defects like crowded teeth and cleft lips. 

Agata went into her mother’s side of the family business and graduated from the Medical University of Lublin in 2022. She’s since worked as a dentist and has an interest in pursuing periodontology, according to her professional bio. 

Tomasz wanted both of his daughters to be athletes 

The father of two encouraged his daughters’ athleticism from the start, but Iga told ausopen.com in January 2020 that he preferred they take up an individual discipline rather than a team sport like he did. She tried swimming at first, but was “scared of the water.” Tennis was more alluring thanks to a good old-fashioned sibling rivalry.

“My older sister was playing,” Iga told WTA Tennis in June 2019. “She's three years older and I always wanted to be like her. I was always competing with her when I was younger and I always lost, so that was very motivating for me.

She said that though her competitive nature initially got her into the sport, she continued because it felt “natural” to her. Agata, on the other hand, stopped playing around 2015-2016 due to an injury.

Tomasz was Iga’s coach for many years 

Tomasz served as the head of his daughter’s coaching team up until 2024, per WP SportoweFakty. He took a step back to allow Iga more independence, he told the Polish outlet.

Despite distancing himself as her coach, he’s remained a vocal advocate for his daughter.

Dorota wasn’t surprised when Iga won her first Grand Slam 

Though spectators were somewhat speechless when Iga dominated the 2020 French Open and won the title without losing a single set, Dorota remained calm.

The mother of two told Super Express that the victory came as no big surprise after witnessing her daughter's 15-year career. Now, she is cheering on Iga at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships.

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